Dear Editor,
Monday morning blues. From last week only my telephone landline is out. All of my neighbors have complete service from TelEm, but by now they should know that I know the ropes and I never exhaust my ammunition.
Over the weekend I ran out of credit so I decided to top up on Monday morning. No internet in the area, so I cannot top up nor use my ATM card neither to swipe nor in the machine. I had to take someone to the laundry so I will pass by TelEm office after.
On my way to the laundry I passed two people walking with masks over their mouths and noses. I decided that that must be because of that heavily contaminated smoke coming from the dump. In the parking lot at the laundry a motor vehicle 307 motor running with only a baby locked inside the car in a baby-seat on the front seat. I looked around and in the laundry. Nobody knew about the car. I decided to inform 911.
For some reason or the other I could not get any connection with 911. At the laundry a lady was criticizing government for closing TelEm and the government building because of the smoke from the dump but did not think on the schoolchildren. That is when I found out that TelEm was closed, so no top up.
The person who I took to the laundry is athsmathic and asked me to take him home because the air in area was getting heavy. All of this between 10:35am and 11:15am.
I bought a newspaper and read that "The company responsible for the management of the landfill was working diligently to extinguish the fire". So again government puts the responsibility (this time of public safety) of the people in the hands of a private entity. Same as public transportation.
I also read of the two options that government has to relocate those victims of Irma and I would like to know if business as usual is going on in that place of prostitution as we would say. If not I don't see any problem in that. Do we always know what the former tenant did in the house that he/she just gave up? Clean up the place and if it is in livable condition, try it.
What to me is an insult to my intelligence and I'm sure to that of others is Jules James claim to be the epitome of leading by example. I must admit though that it is not a waste of time or being brass-faced why he dares to come back, because in spite of lack of all kind of integrity, politicians have proven time and time again that our people are suckers for punishment. So if they vote for him after having demonstrated before that he is and now again telling the people that he is stuck in his ways, I can't blame him.
I for one would not vote for him. He probably can say he is for the people with a straight face (practice makes perfect) but I'm sure not with a clean conscience.
I still believe that the SMCP is the right party for a change.
Russell A. Simmons
